Auctions: comic books July 1944
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Item #62081148
Published Jul 1944 by Fiction House.Planet Comics (1940 Fiction House) 31 CGC 4.5
Paper: Off white to white
Label #4339764006
Starts Jan 4 Cover by Joe Doolin. Edited by Paul Payne. Stories and art by Graham Ingels, Lee Elias, Lily Renee, Fran Hopper, George Appel, and Joe Doolin. The first true science fiction comic, Planet Comics featured classic space opera with square-jawed heroes, rockets, rayguns and bug-eyed aliens of every stripe. Good-girl art aplenty as Gale and her team are captured by the Tatlans, whose dress and architecture resembles ancient Incas; Norge and Jolie are trapped by tigers in the past, but mammoths help them escape; While crossing the Atlantic, Hunt and Lyssa are captured by refugee humans on a submarine. Featuring art by pioneering female artists Fran Deitrick/Hopper and Lily Renee. The Lost World; Gale Allen and the Girl Squadron; Mars, God of War; Space Rangers; First Earthman on Mars; Norge Benson; The Star Pirate. 48 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.